Terrorism and Social Exclusion

Misplaced Risk – Common Security

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Edited by David Wright-Neville was Associate Professor and co-founder of the Global Terrorism Research Centre at Monash University and a senior terrorism analyst in the Australian intelligence community. He is currently an international security consultant and Anna Halafoff, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Deakin University, Australia

Recent thinking on globalization places risk at the centre of contemporary life. Yet what if our perception of risk is misplaced? What if the greatest risk is not terrorism itself but the conditions that allow terrorism to flourish? This fascinating book illustrates that elevated perceptions of terrorism-related risks are having a deleterious impact on many societies, exacerbating feelings of exclusion among individuals and groups. Via their exploration of various societies, the expert contributors show that as a causal factor of terrorism, social exclusion can be remedied by inclusive, participatory and deliberative measures. They prescribe a recalibration of counter-terrorism policies to unite rather than divide multicultural societies.